[pavelkaroukin]

His purpose - get as much money as possible here. And get it now, 'cos tomorrow it might not work, since someone can come up with same idea or bonus rules will change or something else.

[paulhauggis]

His naive approach will lead to either him or his entire department getting replaced by a computer.

[redthrowaway]

Which is a good thing. There's no point in having a bunch of people do manually what can be done automatically with greater efficiency and at less cost. Keynesian economics does not apply to individual organizations.

[getsat]

The point is that it's not a good thing for him for that scenario to unfold.

[robryan]

And with any luck he will then earn a heap more from the company to maintain and improve his program.